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OCR: Many of the photographs on this disc show a twentieth-century stone-age people. They can be called the Bomagai-Angoiang. a name made by joining the names of two clans. The Bomagai-Angoiang were a "clan cluster"; that is, two separate small clans, each with their own territory. Their territories were contiguous, and the people in the two clans recognized each other as friends and to some extent shared land and operated as a unit. The significant groupings in Papua New Guinea were the clans. Most clans were patrilineal, related via the father's clan. The men held the territory and always married women from outside the clan who usually moved to their husband's territory-thus residence was patrilocal. Traditionally all the clans had allies and enemies among the other clans, the enemies usually being neighbors on one side and the allies often being the neighbors on the other side.